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Grand Rapids, Michigan businessman and Republican politician. Correspondence, business records, speeches, and other papers relating to state politics, charitable and civic interests, banking issues, the Grand Rapids Varnish Corporation, the Michigan Trust Company of Grand Rapids, and the Ypsilanti-Reed Furniture Company of Ionia, Michigan; also materials on Albion College, the Methodist Church, the Ionia Free Fair, and Republican Party politics, especially the campaign of Arthur H, Vandenberg for the presidency in 1940.

The collection documents the business, civic, and political interests of Howard C. Lawrence. The series in the collection are: Correspondence; Speeches and speech material; Financial; Business Interests; Charitable and Civic Interests; Clippings; Miscellaneous; Photographs; and Notebooks.

Social reform organization within the Methodist Church concerned with the promotion of temperance and peace founded by Wilbur F. Crafts. Cashbooks, correspondence, minutes of annual meetings, appointment books and newspaper clippings.

The record group consists of cashbooks and a financial ledger (on microfilm) and a scattering of original materials, including correspondence, minutes of annual meetings, appointment books and newspaper clippings.